Social•Dec 2, 2025
Joining TBPN at 2 PM to Discuss Fizzy Launch
I'll be on @TBPN around 2pm pacific today to talk about the Fizzy launch. Unless they totally surprise me and ask me about 5th grade history.
By Jason Fried
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Profit, Not Revenue, Is the Real Scoreboard
Revenue is a vanity metric. Profit is the real scoreboard. It’s not about what you make. It’s about what you keep.
By Dan Martell
Social•Dec 2, 2025
200+ Agency Owners Reveal Industry Health, Growth, Threats
NEW post: https://t.co/fMrZMJxj34 Thanks to the tireless work of @paddymoogan, our survey of 200+ digital agency owners is now live featuring answers to critical questions about the field's health, growth, and threats. https://t.co/O1PWZVpqWV
By Rand Fishkin
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Bootstrapped SaaS Sold for $1.25M in 65 Days
We just helped a founder exit for $1,250,000 on @acquiredotcom. Business was a bootstrapped SaaS. Multiple 4.7x profit. Took about 65 days from listing to close. Another life changing outcome. https://t.co/z3cU78jzi5
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Focus Beats AI‑built SaaS; Stick with Proven Platforms
"Why should companies pay for SaaS (HR/CRM/ERP/etc.) when they could just vibe code them?" I get variations of this question or comment with some regularity (granted, it's sometimes just me talking to myself). Here are some biased (but hopefully, well-considered)...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Tangle Simplifies Shopify ML, Eliminates Redundancy, Now Open Source
Tangle is a major piece of our Shopify data and ML system. It makes complex things easy and automatically avoids doing things more than once, saving an insane amount of waste. Open source today: https://t.co/4KvIoFuetG
By Tobi Lutke
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Prep, Docs, Communication Accelerate M&A Deals
Another awesome @acquiredotcom webinar tomorrow. We'll be showing buyers and sellers how preparation, documentation, and clear communication make deals move faster. Register here (you'll get the recording): https://t.co/9GxFHTo3dz https://t.co/tAD5US18j5
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Claude Opus 4.5 Outperforms Human Engineers on Real Test
Claude Opus 4.5 just beat every human candidate on Anthropic’s performance engineering exam. Here’s what this breakthrough actually means👇 Anthropic’s newest model outperformed every software engineer who has ever taken their real hiring assessment. And this isn’t a small quiz....
By Ryan Allis
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Introducing Picture Cards: Visual Guides for Easy Setup
I didn't show this in the Fizzy demo video, but it's one my favorite obscure features. Text is great, but sometimes a picture just makes more sense. So why not make picture cards? So we did. Here's an example for setting up...
By Jason Fried
Social•Dec 2, 2025
AI Boosts Alaska Airlines' Ramp Safety Culture
Alaska Airlines Uses AI-Driven Technology to Transform Ramp Safety Culture https://t.co/nsaB9YY7QV @Samsara
By Meagen Eisenberg
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Support Team Publishes Fizzy Help Guide on Writebook
The Fizzy help guide was written by our support team, and it's hosted as a Writebook, of course: https://t.co/7NRogb3IYp
By Jason Fried
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Ask Your Fizzy Questions for Tomorrow’s Live Walkthrough
Planing on doing a livestream Fizzy walkthrough tomorrow. Let me know if there's anything specific you'd like me to focus on. Design decisions, product decisions, why things work (or don't work) this way or that way, etc.
By Jason Fried
Social•Dec 2, 2025
AI Agents Are Just Robust, Stateful Workflows
"AI Agents" are really just workflows, which consist of managing state, handling (sometimes very) long running workflows, with error handling and automatic recovery and retries built in. Great to see more attention on this important category. If you want the best...
By Jamin Ball
Social•Dec 2, 2025
AI Agents = Stateful Workflows with Built‑in Resilience
"AI Agents" are really just workflows, which consist of managing state, handling (sometimes very) long running workflows, with error handling and automatic recovery and retries built in. Great to see more attention on this important category. If you want the...
By Jamin Ball
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Built $6.6M SaaS Solely Through LinkedIn Content
I’ve probably made more money directly from posting on LinkedIn than anyone else. In March 2024, I posted an idea for RB2B on LinkedIn. Solicited feedback, iterated in public, pivoted in front of everyone, and built the product while you watched. 18 months...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Repeat Customer Feedback Loops For
How do you actually learn from your customers in B2B? I get asked a lot about my biggest learnings from my last company (Gainsight). It's hard to not feel cliched. Culture! Focus! Strategy! But there's a thing I did 1000+ times that...
By Nick Mehta
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Fizzy Adopts UUIDv7, Enables SaaS‑to‑on‑prem Migration
Fun fact: Fizzy is using UUIDv7 primary keys. Plan is to offer import/export between our SaaS hosting and people's own on-prem installations. Start on SaaS, grab your own SQLite DB, then run it yourself (or the other way!). Will upstream...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Fizzy’s Core and SaaS Code Now Open Source
Fizzy is split into a core codebase that anyone can run on their own and then our hosted SaaS setup. We've published the source to both! So even if you can't run fizzy-saas (since it relies on internal gems), you...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Three-DC Deployment Delivers Sub‑80ms Latency Across Regions
Fizzy is deployed in three different data centers: US Mid-West (Chicago), US East (Ashburn), and EU (Amsterdam). Our writer is in US East, and the two other DCs are for reading. It's fast! P95 response time is 50 for readers,...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Fizzy Opens Full Development History with 1,792 PRs
Unlike Campfire, where we shared a zero-history copy of the codebase, Fizzy's public codebase has the entire life of the product development cycle out in the open. 1,792 pull requests of historical fun and insight into how we make things...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Fizzy's HTML Bugs Fixed and Deployed in 124 Seconds
We're barely a few minutes into the public life of Fizzy, and @marcoroth_ has already tidied up some HTML errors, which we've already deployed to production in 124 seconds with Kamal 🤘 https://t.co/lYwPHqLBrg https://t.co/5XjCHUNsJz
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Fizzy Launches Under O'Saasy License, MIT‑style with SaaS Monetization
Fizzy is released under the O'Saasy License. Which is basically MIT with a carve-out for the original licensor to monetize the SaaS aspect of the code base. Feel free to use! https://t.co/guhoBdMBXC https://t.co/BtdlJBSC6n
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
AI Transforming Analyst Research and Vendor Evaluations
When you get Daniel Newman and me together in front of a microphone at Ingram Micro ONE a few weeks ago, you never know what we might say about research, vendor evaluations, and the role AI will play in an...
By Tiffani Bova
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Jason's Fizzy Walkthrough Offers Deep Product and Code Insight
Jason's complete walk-through of Fizzy is a great way to get a feel for the product. And if you're technically inclined, you could even follow along in the code base to see every controller, every action, every view. https://t.co/XlaJRj0Ydt
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Fizzy Launches Modern Kanban with Freemium SaaS
Fizzy is live! Our modern, beautiful spin on kanban for tracking just about anything. Nothing revolutionary, but just right, just nice. And we're launching our freemium SaaS version alongside an O'Saasy-licensed codebase for you to run it yourself too! https://t.co/AfDsofwNQ8...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Persistence Pays: Stay in the Game to Succeed
15 years, 1 exit, a semi-failed ecommerce brand, and 3 moderately successful agencies into my career, Alex Fine🌲 asked me for the best piece of advice I'd give my younger self, if I were just starting out today: Just stay...
By Eli Rubel
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Stop Rebuilding ERP; Use AI to Build New Capabilities
“Every hour spent recreating Salesforce or Workday is an hour not spent building the proprietary capabilities that actually move the business forward.” This is one of the more essential reason why most companies are not going to have AI clone their...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Fizzy: Simple Kanban, No Corporate Bloat
INTRODUCING FIZZY Have you noticed that every issue and idea tracking tool you loved slowly morphed into boring, sluggish, corporate bloatware? Trello put on 40 pounds of cruft. Jira started charging by the migraine. Asana tried to become everything to everyone. GitHub...
By Jason Fried
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Vista Point Advisors Launches New NYC Office
I’m excited to share that Vista Point Advisors is opening a new office right in the heart of New York City! This is a big step for us as we keep growing and getting closer to the amazing founders, investors,...
By Michael Lyon
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Invest Time Upfront, Save Money and Avoid Vendor Lock
People saying I'm not valuing my time: Of course I do! At some point, I had to exchange my time for the money I'd use to pay for expensive cloud tools. Instead, I now pay upfront with a bit of my...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Dec 2, 2025
From Bootstrapped Success to VC Scaling: Duncan’s Journey
Bootstrap or raise? After scaling GoCardless into a multi-billion-dollar company, Duncan Barrigan knew he wanted to swing big — and VC was the path. Watch Episode 220 👉 https://t.co/r7Q1ZbKANk #SaaS #AI #Lunos https://t.co/9ssXthmWdb
By Ben Murray
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Match CTAs to Audience Intent to Build Trust
You're not tricking anyone into buying anything. A "Learn More" CTA that goes to a form to contact sales, book a demo, or otherwise become a "lead" that will then be "nurtured" is not, in fact, increasing your conversion rate...
By Ashley Faus
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Binary Enemy Narrative Limits Growth; Embrace Both PLG and Sales
I picked the wrong enemy. When I started ProductLed , I studied how great categories were built. - Inbound Marketers declared war on Outbound. - CROs fought against "gut-feeling" updates. - Content Marketers hated pure advertising. The pattern was clear:...
By Wes Bush
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Real AI Tools Founders Use, Not the Hype
Craig Hewitt spent 100 days building SaaS with AI and documented everything on YouTube. I had Craig on the pod to share what he learned including: • The AI tools founders are actually winning with • The ones that are...
By Rob Walling
Social•Dec 2, 2025
B2B Must Match B2C Investment in Customer Research
B2C invests in knowing their customers. B2B invests in… another feature. In B2C, it’s normal (expected) to put a substantial amount of marketing budget into customer research (sometimes as high as 25-50%!) Why? Because they know the truth most B2B...
By Anna Furmanov
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Stop Chasing Vanity Metrics; Prioritize Qualified Leads
The dangerous myth: more steps mean better qualified leads. I've been duped by this myth before as a Founder. So I'm sharing it here so it doesn't sabotage your pipeline generation efforts. 1. Optimizing for Vanity Metrics I watched Startup...
By TK Kader
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Entrepreneurs Drive Record BFCM Growth on Shopify
Entrepreneurs won BFCM, again. → Merchants’ sales globally were $14.6 billion, up 27% from last year → 81 million shoppers bought from Shopify-powered brands → 15,800+ entrepreneurs made their first sale → 136+ million packages tracked in the Shop App → 2.2 trillion edge requests →...
By Tobi Lutke
Social•Dec 2, 2025
5 Biases That Drive Every Conversion
Here are 5 cognitive biases that quietly drive most of your conversions: 1. Loss Aversion: People fight harder to avoid pain than gain pleasure. 2. Mere Exposure Effect: The more often someone sees you, the more they trust you. 3. Authority Bias: If it sounds like expertise, people...
By Katelyn Bourgoin
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Campfire 1.3 Launches with Built‑In Ban Hammer
Campfire 1.3 has been released. Now includes a ban hammer, so it's easier to invite the world to a chat room without fearing it'll be overrun by spammers or savages. https://t.co/IIsmJWsFVA
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Build Your Own Tools, Ditch Expensive SaaS
Rewardful didn't have the features we needed (and didn't want to add them). So we vibe coded our own partner platform. It took a week. Screen Studio only works for macOS. So I vibe coded my own for Linux. Took a...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Dec 2, 2025
AI Ops and Vertical SaaS Attract Record Funding
This Week in SaaS — Nov 25 to Dec 1, 2025 Another packed week in SaaS—AI infra is getting the biggest checks, workflow automation is heating up, and consolidation continues across fintech, travel, and accounting. If you're building in mid-market...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Empower Top Teams with Autonomy, Don’t Split Them
Almost never break up a top performing team Get them their own office Let then own a key feature set Let them own a segment to market to Let them keep selling together Scale with and around them
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 1, 2025
SaaStr Fund Backed Us Since Pre‑Seed
Boom!! Proud @saastrfund has been an early investor since pre-seed!!
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 1, 2025
AI Turns Failed Ideas Into Scalable Sales Engines
My biggest learnings from Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (ex-Chief Business Officer at @Stripe, now @Vercel COO): 1. What failed seven years ago now works with AI. In 2017, Jeanne tried to build a system at Stripe that would automatically personalize outbound emails...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Scale Demands a New You, Not Your Old Self
Every level of scale requires a different version of you. Don’t cling to the founder you were at $100K when you’re aiming for $10M.
By Dan Martell
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Record‑breaking Cyber Weekend: 1.5 Trillion Views, Zero Issues
Record-breaking day for our customers with flawless performance throughout the entire Cyber Weekend. That’s the power of the Salesforce Ohana—always delivering the seamless, reliable experience our trailblazers need to win big. 1.5 trillion page views and zero worries. ❤️🎅 https://t.co/AlOZ8h7xMJ
By Marc Benioff
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Master SaaS Finance Basics in 90 Minutes
PHX area founders! I'm holding in-person training this Wednesday in Tempe. 🙌 PHX FWD is hosting me for this founder-specific training session. Your financial engine can either accelerate your growth… or confuse it. Join me for a hands-on workshop to...
By Ben Murray